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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
government factories employed a majority of the city’s 300,000 inhabitants (including Mlotok’s parents) until market reforms obliterated the industry, leaving thousands penniless. “The mid-1990s were the worst time,” recalls Mlotok, who... View Details
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Strategic Plan | Information Technology
Computing Platform (formerly CloudJump) 4. Protect HBS Information & Technology Assets 4.01: Data Loss Prevention 4.02: Managed Security Service Program (completed) 4.03: Security Remediation 5. (Enablers) Build Organizational Health... View Details
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Harvard & HBS IT Policies | Information Technology
These protections may be governed by legal, contractual, or University policy considerations. Everyone at Harvard has a responsibility for proper handling and protection of confidential information. These policies apply to the entire... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
Max Bazerman, co-author of "You Can't Enlarge the Pie," discussed the flaws in government decision making in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge Editor Sean Silverthorne. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of... View Details
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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
the video, Weiss explains how his service to the City of Boston became the basis for a new HBS course. “The late Mayor Menino, my boss, was fond of saying that ‘the government is about helping people.’... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
a generation. Once reviled as villains operating on the fringes of the market, they are now powerful forces at work in the mainstream of business. Activist investing gained legitimacy and influence thanks in part to the development of a support system from professional... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
disappointment and dissatisfaction? And yet, the aging workforces of developed countries around the world have created long-term fiscal challenges that are forcing their governments to address this issue now. Take the situation in the... View Details
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Monica Dodi
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer... View Details
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
the government should not be in the business of helping some small businesses and not others. The editorial writers reinforced their view of SBA by pointing to President Obama’s proposed reorganization of federal economic agencies in... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
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Gerald Chertavian
his new wife, Kate, where he ran marketing for a financial services firm before cofounding Conduit Communications, a consulting firm focused on the nascent field of Internet marketing. He spent several years building Conduit into one of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
the Harvard Kennedy School, where she is the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation. Frances Frei: Ask us for a better version of ourselves It’s hard to overstate the positive business impact of government that embraces... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
of fast-growing young companies that actually create most of the country’s new jobs. Moreover, throwing government money at favored sectors, such as bio fuels or green tech, isn’t the right approach either, added Lerner, the 2010... View Details
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
Why was earning an MBA at HBS important to you? To achieve success as a business leader and agent of empowerment, I knew I had to learn valuable new skills. My experiences as a junior banker, young entrepreneur, and novice service... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
investment managers and firms. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5648.html. Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer Apple’s iTunes music download service and illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music... View Details
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Laura Mackay
(e.g., new delivery models, digital health, etc.) is front and center. The level of access to thought leaders in the community and alumni network, as well as to entrepreneurs and established companies driving the latest insights and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
of sorts. They have allowed entrepreneurs to build empires out of fiber and thin air and to establish these empires in a realm without rules. They have challenged governments and their traditional authority—not by design or intent, but... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
government can work together to create jobs.” "We've made a lot of progress on the macroeconomic front: deficit reduction, balancing the budget, what the Fed is doing, and tax policy reform," says Mills. "But that doesn't... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
How would you like to invest in a project that simultaneously provides a needed social service and generates a financial return? Nice idea, but not possible? Not exactly. Social impact bonds (SIBs) do just that. The concept is simple and... View Details